Referee appointment made for Zenit v Akhmat Grozny in the RPL

The 39-year-old Sergey Karasev has been appointed to the match with the blue-white-sky blues for the 28th time in his career.

He will be assisted by Igor Demeshko from Khimki and Aleksey Lunev from Novosibirsk, the fourth official will be St. Petersburg's Kirill Levnikov. 

Under his refereeing Zenit have 15 wins, 7 draws and just 5 defeats. The last game with him as referee took place on 2 December 2017, when Zenit beat Ural 2-1 at home. 

The match against Akhmat will be held on Sunday 4 November and will begin at 14:00. Tickets are available on tickets.fc-zenit.ru.